. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. to the wind, sat his daughter, with flaxenhair and clear blue eyes, and a sober, earnest face. She was so muchlike Vera — more like Vera than any one he had ever seen before; yes,Vera, too, was a Russian. It was only the great family resemblance ofnations, no doubt, and Scott, ashamed of himself, tried to remember thatall that he was doing, trying to do, and determined to do, was to the endthat Vera should go back to Russia and be beyond all thought of himforever, and still his heart beat fast in spite of him, all because a
. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. to the wind, sat his daughter, with flaxenhair and clear blue eyes, and a sober, earnest face. She was so muchlike Vera — more like Vera than any one he had ever seen before; yes,Vera, too, was a Russian. It was only the great family resemblance ofnations, no doubt, and Scott, ashamed of himself, tried to remember thatall that he was doing, trying to do, and determined to do, was to the endthat Vera should go back to Russia and be beyond all thought of himforever, and still his heart beat fast in spite of him, all because a girlwho reminded him of Vera, in a rude fishing smack, shot under the leeof the Snowbird. Just look at that village up the river yonder, Roy Bother the village ! Scott replied. I want St. Petersburg. It was not much of a village ; only a half-dozen fantastic houses, afew fantastic people, two windmills for grain and lumber, and a wonder-fully fantastic church. It was a real little exponent of Russia, however, 14S I- /■ ■ I. ... I , ... V Jt PRISONERS OF THE TZAR. *5* just as Fiskenaes was of Greenland, St. Johns of Newfoundland, Trondh-jem of Norway ; just as the fishermans daughter was like Vera, becausethey were both Russians — the little village was very like its country. The Snowbird flew onward till met by a harbor police-boat, and anofficer who ordered them to drop anchor off Kronstadt, at the entranceto the bay of Peterhof, twenty miles below St. Petersburg, and rigjtt
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